Cooperation in keas: Social and cognitive factors

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary and Developmental Views

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-119

  Huber, Ludwig ^a   Gajdon, Gyula K ^b   Federspiel, Ira ^c   Werdenich, Dagmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-75179-3_5     Document Type: Chapter

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